Disclaimer: Contains spoilers!
Plot Summary: Five people are invited by a doll maker to have their likenesses added to the collection.
Review: Uh, this film is such a mess. It starts off with a decent enough premise and some rising tension; however, it doesn't take long for things to go down hill. I think the biggest problem was that this film wants to have two different stories in which neither makes any sense. Half the plot involves a man who owned a doll modeled after his wife about 50 years ago. The wife is killed mysteriously and the man is killed by a mob which enrages the doll. Eventually the doll is discovered by a couple in which the doll possesses that wife. Through this wife, the doll tries to exact revenge on the descendants of the mob. Eh, it really makes little sense even though I explained it as best as I could. The other plot point involves the main girl once having a doll she abandoned as a child. Somehow this doll has come to life and is conveniently being controlled by the possessed wife. In exchange for killing off the descendants of the mob, the possessed wife promises dollgirl that she won't kill the main lead. There is a lot of lame drama about their alleged friendship and whatever, but, again, it makes no sense. There are also many contrivances that seem as though they will add to the plot only to add up to nothing. I also was annoyed that the possessed wife has locked up her husband and employed her brother to do her bidding; this really would have felt more normal the other way around, but okay! The effects are shoddy, the scares are virtually nonexistent, nothing makes sense, most plot points go nowhere, the acting and dialogue seemed questionable, and overall this is just boring which is the most unforgivable aspect. I have no idea how someone told me this was the best Asian horror movie they had watched, but this is an easy pass.
Notable Moment: When we see someone actually get killed while taking a dump! I mean this film is totally ridiculous.
Final Rating: 4.5/10
I just finished watching it. I thought it was an okay movie.I did think it was a ridiculous coincidence that the possessed wife happened to have the doll that our main character threw away years ago. Why did the girl throw away that expensive doll? She just tossed it out the window. I would have probably kept it in the attic, sold it or maybe give it away to a younger relative. I don't know.I wonder why the husband didn't just make a doll that looked like the guy that was murdered at the start by the angry mob.....speaking of the angry mob, why murder the descendants? What was the point?
ReplyDeleteThis reviewer's comments would bear more weight if he gave the slightest evidence of having understood even the obvious parts of this excellent film, let alone the subtler parts that flew directly over his head.
ReplyDeleteIntelligent viewers should not be put off by this sophomoric review and should see it for themselves.